| Description |
xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 241-252. |
| Contents |
1. Achievement and value: Sylvia Plath, romantic... / Calvin Bedient -- Short circuits and folding mirrors / J.D. McClatchy -- Sincerity kills / Hugh Kenner -- Sylvia Plath: drama and melodrama / David Shapiro -- 2. Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. Personal and public contexts: Sylvia Plath's "sivvy" poems: a portrait of the poet as daughter / Marjorie Perloff -- The absence at the center: Sylvia Plath and suicide / Murray M. Schwartz and Christopher Bollas -- The beekeeper's apprentice / Carole Ferrier -- Sylvia Plath and the cycles of history / Jerome Mazzaro. |
| Subject |
Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Lane, Gary, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0801821797 |
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